Re: [tied] Hydronyms and toponyms of Vedic area

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

> <anu pratnasyaukasa [= pratnasya okasas] huve
> tuvipratiM naram>
>
> "Next, former[gen.] home[gen.] call[1sg.]
> strongly-resisting[acc.] hero[acc.]"
>
> Or, in plain English, "Next, I call him mighty to
> resist, the hero of our ancient home".
>
> <anu> is merely an adverb here, one of the favourite
> sentence connectives in the language. It means
> 'then, afterwards, next', etc., and is so common
> that it's often left untranslated. The word also
> functions as a preposition (or postposition) meaning
> 'after, beyond, along'.
>
> Piotr

*****GK: So much for "Anu" as a pre-Aryan entity
here...(:=))
But a couple of follow-ups: (1) Since you seem to be
using "ancient" in the sense of "former", would you
say that this verse implies remembrance of a pre-NW
India homeland?

And (2) something completely different: "Anu" exists
in Ukrainian as an expression encouraging action,
deed, movement. Also as "anumo". I'm not sure about
other Sl. languages (my dictionaries aren't all that
comnplete). Is this related to the Vedic adverb?*****

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